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TEDxMidTownNY Monday 9 May 2011
This event is sponsored by NASA and the Space Frontier Foundation.
Our theme for 9 May is "Piercing the Veil": What secrets are hidden beneath Jupiter's veil of clouds and massive storms? Can exploration of Jupiter reveal the origins of water and life on Earth?
Join us 6-9pm Monday 9 May 2011 at Hotel Beacon NYC, Broadway Room, 2130 Broadway (74th/ 75th Sts.), New York, NY 10023. Light refreshments, videos, speakers, discussion.
Tickets: http://m.bpt.bz/event/174268
Our headline speaker is Scott Bolton, Chief Scientist for NASA's upcoming Juno Mission, which will probe Jupiter's atmosphere in search of clues to how the largest (and probably oldest) planet in the Solar System, and the Solar System itself, were formed from a primordial cloud of gas.
"As the largest planet in the solar system, Jupiter contains more matter than all the other planets combined," says Dr. Bolton, a director of Southwest Research Institute's Space Science and Engineering Division. "By determining how much water is in the planet, we complete the inventory of the key ingredients that make up the planet... to figure out the billion-year-old recipe [for] the first planets in our solar system."
Michael Benson is a photographer, writer, and filmmaker. During the last decade he staged a series of increasingly large-scale exhibitions of planetary landscape photography internationally, and authored three illustrated books with space themes, most recently "Far Out: A Space-Time Chronicle" (Abrams, October 2010; Japanese edition 2011).
Michael's theme is "Imagin(in)g the Universe," a capsule history of our attempts to represent the universe, from naked-eye astronomy to telescope imagery, with robotic interplanetary spaceflight capping off the sequence. He'll also discuss the relationship between art and science as specifically embodied in attempts to reproduce the heavens and spheres.
Videos: TEDxSanJoseCA - Jeff Greason - "Rocket Scientist: Making Space Pay and Having Fun Doing It"
Jeff Greason has devoted his life to creating and managing innovative technical project teams at XCOR Aerospace, Rotary Rocket Company (RRC), and Intel Corporation. Time magazine named Jeff as one of their "Inventors of the Year" for his team's work on the EZ- Rocket in 2002. He is the president and co-founder of XCOR; leading an engineering team that has developed 11 different long life, highly reusable, liquid-fueled rocket engines.
http://www.youtube.com/user/TEDxTalks#p/search/0/m8PlzDgFQMM
Anil Ananthaswamy takes us to some of the most remote and silent places on Earth, where giant telescopes and detectors are looking for clues to the workings of the universe.
http://ted.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=07487d1456302a286cf9c4ccc&id=7c9caa926d&e=bdeef5e6f8
Each TEDxMidTownNY program features 2 live speakers, and 2 presentations from http://www.TED.com, opening with light refreshments and networking and followed by discussion with our speakers and the audience.
TEDxMidTownNY takes place about 6 times a year at the Hotel Beacon NYC and is sponsored by the Space Frontier Foundation. 9 May's event is cosponsored by NASA.
Reservations are encouraged. Advance tickets are available now: http://m.bpt.bz/event/174268. Tickets go on sale at the door beginning at 6:00pm the evening of the event. Tickets are $20 general admission and $5 for students with i.d. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.
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LocationHotel Beacon
2130 Broadway
New York, NY 10023
United States
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